Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TIME magazine last week became involved in Vice President Spiro Agnew's legal battle to stop the Baltimore grand jury's hearing of evidence against him. This is our position in the matter...
...indicated in our stories, the information came from officials in the Justice Department and from other sources. The Vice President argues that these reports are bound to prejudice the grand jury and deprive him of a fair hearing. U.S. District Judge Walter E. Hoffman has authorized Mr. Agnew's lawyers to subpoena newsmen in order to find out who was responsible for the leaks. Members of TIME's staff, along with other journalists, have been served with such subpoenas...
...necessary for Mr. Agnew or the Justice Department to find out who was responsible for the leaks. In the attempt to identify those responsible, the newsmen under subpoena may be pressed to reveal their confidential sources. If so, we will resist. We take it for granted that journalists, like all other citizens, have a duty to uphold the law. But we also believe that a reporter should not be required to disclose confidential sources except in the most compelling circumstances, such as imminent danger of loss of life, or if the reporter had essential information on a violent crime...
...Vice President Spiro Agnew, battling to preserve his post and his political future, there was good news and bad news last week. He won a surprise and legally surprising tactical victory in his efforts to halt leaks from the grand jury's investigation of him for bribery, extortion, conspiracy and tax evasion. Yet the President of the U.S. went out of his way to set the public record straight on his support of the prosecution and the seriousness of the charges, even as he accepted Agnew's right, fiercely asserted the week before, not to resign if indicted...
...Agnew's courtroom victory came after his lawyers had moved to quash the grand jury investigation by arguing that it was not only unconstitutional-a Vice President could not be indicted-but that the Justice Department had leaked so much detrimental material about Agnew to the press that the jurors were bound to be prejudiced. In a highly unusual action, Judge Walter E. Hoffman granted Agnew's attorneys the power to gather information about the extent of the leaks by questioning under oath any persons they felt to be "appropriate and necessary"-a sweeping definition that could...